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Friends, many of us thought that Nancy Pelosi would stalk us relentlessly for all eternity, like the undead shrew she clearly resembles, but it turns out that she's mortal and, at age 85, she's decided to retire. Unfortunately, her heartfelt hatred for Republicans and conservatives and, most of all, Donald Trump will long outlive her. C'est la vie.
In other news, could you soon be replaced by a humanoid robot? If your name is Jack and elegant verbiage drips from your mouth like sweet, ambrosial drool, then probably not. If you're in the service industry, though, be afraid! Be VERY afraid!!! How soon will the robots conquer all? Ah, there's the rub...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrz2rdlykdo
Finally, have you noticed how DJT seems to be setting up both J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio as potential successors? Well, apparently Rubio is assuring Republican insiders that he won't run for president in 2028 if Vance does, which is probably for the best, as the last thing the right needs is to be eating its own. I like Rubio, personally, but I like Vance more.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Pelosi is the quintessential limousine liberal: so very assertive in her disdainful and vindictive advocacy of virtue signaling far left measures the con
ReplyDeletesequences from which she is conveniently insulated. Would she stand to have illegals camping on her property? Hardly! Were it to happen she would summarily "command" the despised police to move in and cleanse her domain.
In one sense, common sense America may miss her. Her obnoxious imperiousness provides a telling foil to the detached "populism" of the dems. They are convinced of their own elite and unchallengeably just and omniscient convictions and she personifies this very well.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I agree with you about Rubio and Vance. I'd like to see Vance succeed DJT in 2029.
ReplyDeleteRubio is a loyal and effective Secretary of State and he probably harbors the well justified hatred of communism which is widely held in the Hispanic community of Florida. Absolute , unapologetic intolerance of that proven inhuman doctrine must be a maxim in our country. Marxists are plainly determined to use DJT as a foil for an advance which they think might bring them within sight of their heartfelt desire, the totalitarian subjugation of the reprehensible U.S. I doubt that they will succeed; I cannot believe that America would submit to them.
BTW, NY Gov. Stefanik would make a very good running mate for JD.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: "I thank thee; I am not of many words(!?) but I do thank thee" - Don John in Much Ado About Nothing. I know nothing about the "mechanics" of AI but from what I think I know I would guess the real test has not come yet. I'm thinking that will come when it imparts sentience ,self awareness and creative intelligence to machines guided by it (?)
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Though its a stretch maybe one could be reminded of the ambience of prerevolutionary France in the antipathy which obtains in our polity today. It had some aristocrats and people of learning many of whom talked Enlightenment in their Parisian salons but expressed disdain for any who disagreed. The more obnoxious among them might have been the Pelosis of their day.
ReplyDeleteBut waiting for their chance were the forces of volcanic and terribly vindictive destruction. They were the prototypes of modern "American" radicals who consider their cause so unquestionably righteous that it justifies "any means necessary" to establish their total "redemptive" control. Yes, in France it was first directed against the Ancien Regime's royalty and nobility but in short order, in the Reign of Terror, it swept up any who showed even a hint of questionable loyalty to the new order. Eg. Massive rafts packed with unfortunates deigned heretic were sunk in rivers, the better to hasten the cleansing of France.
A force proven capable of doing similarly grievous damage to our civilization obtains in our country and is showing unmistakeable signs of a renewed determination to subject the U.S. to oppression fully comparable to that which ravaged France in an era which predicted the totalitarian catastrophes of the 20th century. It has nothing approaching the wrongs fostered by the Ancien Regime in France to "justify "it but it would have us believe it does. And it is obsequiously seconded in this by a "mass media" very far more effective than that of late 18th century France.
Fortunately we have the benefit of a history of unfettered tyrannical idealism seared into our consciences by the 20th century. Those of good will in prerevolutionary France might not have known or cared about Louis the 15th's warning "after me, the DELUGE". But we do and we know what unspeakable tragedy engulfed those cursed by comparable evil after that prototypical "revolution" set its ominous example. We must not waste this knowledge; the "American" far left intends totalitarian correction of America and could at the very least cause untold dissemblance and destruction in continuing to strive so; at worst? The DELUGE. If that seems a reach, ask lawful residents of Portland or Seattle about their experience of forceful takeover by vicious communards in their very neighborhoods. In America no less!
Good point! A sneering San Franciscan harpy, and a smarmy lifetime politician from Brooklyn, are ideal representatives of their out-of-touch party, so we may miss ole Nancy, by and by.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Stefanik a running mate for Vance? Interesting. Perhaps, if she's able to win the gubernatorial race in NYS (a big "if").
Agreed: AI sentience, or even mimicry of sentience so convincing that no one can tell the difference, will be a game changer. The game changers may be manifold, though, because already AI is robust enough to render almost every worker who uses primarily his brain obsolete.
The French Revolution will forever stand as a vivid demonstration of the potential for pleasant-sounding ideals to justify and undergird sheer savagery. It was, I would say, a rather typical revolution, in that it departed almost completely from its founding principles and became a no-holds-barred contest for power. The American Revolution was quite unusual in accomplishing all its stated objectives and preserving, rather than overturning, the established order.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I presumptuously ( because I lack your solid historical bonafides) agree with you on both the French and American revolutions .
ReplyDeleteOh yes. I assume gubernatorial success for Elise Stefanik in my prediction of her national prospects.I do so partly because she represents the North Country of NY State, a region which would disabuse many good willed people of other states of their understandable impression that NY state is entirely urban, Eastern megalopolis oriented. It isn't , let me assure those good people who may think so. The Adirondack region , which includes most of Northern NY state , is a beautifully wild region of rugged stoney peaks some of which in winter manifest actual Arctic climates. Its population is profoundly common sense and Rep. Elise Stefanik represents them in the U.S. House with profound faithfulness. She has , with well directed logic and courage, confronted far leftists such as far left oriented Ivy League "University" Presidents and skillfully shown them up for the bigots they are, in House Committee setting. Her probing examination of their presumptuous far left wing presumptions has embarrassed some of them into resignation. She personifies President Trump's onslaught on the America hating radicals who still persist in their quest to subject our country to Marxist serfdom and who have lain hold on the intimidated Dem party.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: If Stefanik can, with this unapologetic record , capture NY state's Executive office (its been done in recent memory; George Pataki, a GOP NY state legislator, actually defeated celestially endorsed Dem Gov. Mario Cuomo, he of unquestionable righteousness, in a direct electoral fight) she would, I think , warrant serious consideration for national leadership and how redeeming one of her true grit would be in that.
ReplyDeleteOK, my juxtaposition of two uses of "presumptuous " above is my bad. Jack
ReplyDeleteHmm. Are you seriously suggesting that NYS might elect a Governor possessed of "common sense"??? I submit that your prediction lacks common sense. Ha!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: That may well be so but who could have predicted the rise of DJT, especially in the face of sainted Hillary? NY's redemption IS a distant possibility but . . . ?
ReplyDeleteHey, stranger things have happened! That's a credo that never goes out of style.
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